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    A[stua]tsashunchʻ. Hnotsʻ ew Norotsʻ Ktakaranatsʻ ner parunakōgh sharakargutʻeamb nakhneatsʻn meroy ew chshmartasiratsʻ tʻargmanchʻatsʻ
    Atsuatsashunchʻ Hnotsʻ ew Norotsʻ Ktakaranatsʻ ner parunakōgh sharakargutʻeamb nakhneatsʻn meroy ew chshmartasiratsʻ tʻargmanchʻatsʻ     The Oskan Bible of 1666 is the first complete printed Bible in Armenian. It takes its name from Oskan Erewants'i (Oskan of Yerevan, 1614-74), an expatriate from Armenia who, with the help…

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    The history of the Caribby Islands : viz., Barbados, S'Christophers, S'Vincents, Martinico, Dominico, Barbouthos, Monserrat, Mevis, … This early study of the Caribbean is an English translation of a French work published anonymously in Rotterdam in 1658 under the title Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique…
    • Contributor: Breton, Raymond - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Rochefort, Charles De - Davies, John
    • Date: 1666

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    Sharḥ al-Khulāṣah fī al-ḥisāb
    شرح الخلاصة في الحساب /     Text is a commentary on al-Khulaṣah fī al-ḥisāb by Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʻĀmilī. Two poems attributed to ʻAmr ibn al-ʻĀṣ on title page in a different hand. Last page includes…
    • Contributor: ʻamr Ibn Al - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - ʻabāyī, ʻabd Allāh Ibn ʻīsá Ibn Ismāʻīl - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - ʻāmilī, Bahāʼ Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥusayn - Jazarī, Ramaḍān Ibn Abī Hurayrah - Baytūshī, ʻabd Allāh Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1665
    • Resource: PDF - 125

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    Sinp'yŏn sanhak kyemong : 3-kwŏn
    新編 算學 啟蒙 : 3卷 / | Sanhak kyemong     In 1839 Luo Shilin acquired this Korean edition of a work likely no longer found in China; written by Zhu Shijie in the 13th century; pref. by Zhao Cheng dated 1299; another…
    • Contributor: Zhao, Cheng - Kim, Si-Jin - Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Zhu, Shijie
    • Date: 1660
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    Da Yuan hun yi tong zhi : Yanjing
    大元混一統志 : 燕京     Incomplete copy - only six chapters in this copy; the manuscript exhibits different writing styles. This work is based on an important book by Gu Zuyu (1631-92), a geographer from Wuxi, Jiangsu…
    • Contributor: Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Gu, Zuyu
    • Date: 1662
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    Muḥammad al-Farghānī's Elements of Chronology and Astronomy. Aḥmad ibn Moḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī (flourished 861) was an astronomer who worked at the court of the early Abbasid caliphs. He appears to have been active in the court of al-Ma'mun,…
    • Contributor: Janssonius Van Waesberge, Johannes, Flourished - Golius, Jacobus - Vidua Elizei Weyerstraet - Farghānī, Flourished 861
    • Date: 1669-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 288

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    Jie zi yuan hua chuan : wu juan
    芥子园画传 : 五卷     Jieziyuan hua zhuan (The Mustard Seed Garden manual of painting), also known as Jie zi yuan hua pu, was compiled in the early Qing dynasty. The work was commissioned by Shen Xinyou,…
    • Contributor: Wang, Gai, Active
    • Date: 1662
    • Resource: PDF - 65

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    Xuan men mai jue nei zhao tu
    玄門脈訣內照圖     Xuan men mai jue nei zhao tu (A Daoist work in verse on methods of diagnosing and treating diseases through viscera), in two juan, was attributed to Hua Tuo (circa 140--208), the…
    • Contributor: Hua, Tuo, Died 208 - Wang, Hu
    • Date: 1668
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    Enlightening Illustrations. Published in 1666 in the early part of the Edo period, Kinmo zui (Enlightening illustrations) is the first illustrated encyclopedia produced in Japan. The compiler, Nakamura Tekisai (1629-1702), was born into a…
    • Contributor: Nakamura, Tekisai
    • Date: 1666-01-01
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    Articles about the Transfer of New Netherland on the 27th of August, Old Style, Anno 1664.
    Artykelen, Van 't overgaen van Nieuw-Nederlandt. Op den 27. Augusti, Oude-Stijl, Anno 1664     On August 27, 1664, a fleet of four British warships under the command of Colonel Richard Nicolls sailed into the harbor of New Amsterdam (present-day New York City) and demanded that Peter…
    • Date: 1664-01-01
    • Resource: Image
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    Remonstration of the Administrators of the Dutch West India Company to their Lords the State General …
    Remonstrantie, Vande Bewinthebberen der Nederlantsche West-Indische Compagnie, aende d'Heeren Staten Generael over verscheyde specien van Tyrannye, ende gewelt, door de Engelsche in Nieuw-Nederlant     In the 1660s, colonists from the English colonies of Connecticut and Massachusetts to the east and northeast and Maryland and Virginia to the south and southwest increasingly infringed on the Dutch colony…
    • Contributor: Hove, Michiel Ten
    • Date: 1663-01-01
    • Resource: Image
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    Brief and Concise Plan Intended to be a Mutual Agreement for Some Colonists Willing to go …
    Kort en klaer ontwerp [...] om Den arbeyd [...] van Alderley-hand-wercxluyden te verlichten door Een onderlinge Compagnie ofte Volck-planting [...] aen de Zuyt-revier in Nieu--neder-land op te rechten     Pieter Cornelis Plockhoy was a Dutch Mennonite and social reformer, born in the city of Zierikzee circa 1625. He moved to Amsterdam in 1648, where he became well known in the city's…
    • Contributor: Plockhoy, Pieter Corneliszoon
    • Date: 1662-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 15

  • Book/Printed Material
    Short Story about New Netherland [...] and Special Possibilities to Populate.
    Kort verhael Van Nieuw-Nederlants gelegentheit [...] en byzondere bequaemheidt ter bevolkingh     This pamphlet, published anonymously in Amsterdam in October 1662, concerns the establishment of a settlement on the South River (as the Dutch called the Delaware River) in New Netherland by the Dutch…
    • Contributor: Enden, Franciscus Van Den
    • Date: 1662-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 93

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    Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus: Heroic Poem.
    S. Ignacio de Loyola, fundador de la Compañia de Iesus: Poema Heroyco     S. Ignacio de Loyola, fundador de la Compañia de Iesus: Poema Heroyco (Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus: Heroic poem) is an epic work about the life of…
    • Contributor: Domínguez Camargo, Hernando - Bastidas, Antonio
    • Date: 1666-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 460

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    Compendium of Latin Translations of Persian Astronomical Tables.
    Chorasmiae, et Marawalnaharae, hoc est, Regionum extra fluvium Oxum Descriptio, Ex Tabulis Abulfedae Ismaelis...Epochae celebriores, Astronomis, Historicis, Chronologis, Chataiorum, Syro-Graecorum, Arabum, Persarum, Chorasmiorum...Ex traditione Ulug Beigi...Tabulae longitudinae ac latitudinae stellarum fixarum, ex observatione Ulugh Beighi... Mohammedis Tizini Tabulae declinationum & rectarum ascensionum... elenchus nominarum stellarum...In Ulugh Beighi Tabulas stellarum Fixarum Commentarii     This volume is a compendium of six works that includes Latin translations of portions of the Zīj-i Sulṭānī by Muḥammad Ṭaraghāy ibn Shāhrukh ibn Tīmūr (1394--1449), known as Ulugh Beg. The other…
    • Contributor: Hyde, Thomas - Abū Al-Fidā', Ismā'īl Ibn 'Alī - Al-Tizīnī, Muhammad Ibn Muhammad - Greaves, John - Ulugh Beg
    • Date: 1665-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 268

  • Book/Printed Material
    The Princess of Montpensier.
    La Princesse de Montpensier     This first edition of La Princesse de Montpensier (The Princess of Montpensier) by Madame de La Fayette was published anonymously in 1662. Taking place during the religious wars of the previous century,…
    • Contributor: La Fayette, Madame De (Marie-Madeleine Pioche De La Vergne)
    • Date: 1662-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 161

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    The Theater of Nobility in Europe. Genealogy of the Illustrious Progenitors of the Christian World.
    Theatrum, Nobilitatis. Europeae, Tabulis. Progonologicis. Praecipuorum. In. Cultiori. Christiano. Orbe. Magnatum. Et. Illustrium. Progenitores     Theatrum, Nobilitatis. Europeae, Tabulis. Progonologicis. Praecipuorum. In. Cultiori. Christiano. Orbe. Magnatum. Et. Illustrium. Progenitores (The theater of nobility in Europe. Genealogy of the illustrious progenitors of the Christian world) is a work…
    • Contributor: Wust, Balthasar Christoph - Spener, Philipp Jakob - Vogel, Egidius, Flourished 1657-Approximately 1683
    • Date: 1668-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 468

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    Commentary on "The Compendium of Plain Astronomy". This work is a commentary on Mulahhas fī al-Hay'a Al-Basīta (The compendium of plain astronomy), a treatise on theoretical astronomy by Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad Jighmīnī. A renowned Persian mathematician and astronomer, Jighmīnī…
    • Contributor: Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá Ibn Muḥammad, Died Approximately 1436 - Al-Ahlounawani, Ahmad Ibn Bahram
    • Date: 1665-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 97

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    Poem on the Causes and Symptoms of Fevers. Although the colophon of this manuscript copy of al-Urjūzah fī asbāb al-ḥumīyāt wa 'alāmātihā (Poem on the causes and symptoms of fevers) attributes the work to Abu ʻAli Husayn Ibn Sina (born…
    • Contributor: Tabib, Muhammad - Avicenna, 980
    • Date: 1661-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 15

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    The Perfect Pearl of Wonders and the Precious Pearl of Extraordinary Things. The manuscript presented here is an Ottoman Turkish translation of Kharīdat al-ʻAjā'ib wa Farīdat al-Gharā'ib (The perfect pearl of wonders and the precious pearl of extraordinary things), a compilation of texts on…
    • Contributor: Ibn Al-Wardī, Sirāj Al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻumar, 1457 - Ibn Muṣṭafá, Ḥasan
    • Date: 1661-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 411

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    A Collection Dealing with the Medical Profession. The manuscript presented here comprises seven different texts dealing with medicine, particularly the profession of medicine. The texts begin with an urjuzah (type of Arabic poem) by Persian polymath Abu ʻAli al-Husayn…
    • Contributor: Usaynī, Zayn Al-Dīn Ibn Al-Sayyid Muḥammad Al-Ḥimṣī - Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad Ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925 - Aṭṭār Al-Hārūnī, Dāwud Ibn Abī Naṣr Active 13th Century - Avicenna, 980 - Abū Naṣr Ibn Al-Masīḥī, 1223 - Anṭākī, Dāʼūd Ibn ʻumar, 1599 - Masīḥī, ʻīsá Ibn Yaḥyá, 1010011
    • Date: 1662-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 207

  • Book/Printed Material
    Soga's Robes. Nara-ehon are illustrated manuscripts or hand-printed books and scrolls produced in Japan from the Muromachi period (1336-1573) through the middle of the Edo period (1600-1867). This rectangular nara-ehon depicts the story of…

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    Yu zhi tian wen xiang zhan cun shi liu juan
    御制天文象占存十六卷     Shown here is Yu zhi tian wen xiang zhan: cun shi liu juan (Divinations by astrological and meteorological phenomena, issued by imperial order), by an unnamed author. The title is on the…
    • Date: 1662
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    Trakai Castle Court Year Book for 1660--61. At the height of its power in the 15th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ruled over the territory of present-day Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, and parts of Estonia, Moldova, Poland,…
    • Contributor: Trakai (Lithuania). Castle Court
    • Date: 1660-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 1749

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    Natural History of the West Indies.
    Histoire naturelle ou la fidelle recherche de tout ce qu'il y a de rare dans les Indes Occidantalles     Louis Nicolas (active 1667-75) was a French Jesuit who in 1664 was sent to Canada as a missionary, where he remained until 1675. He traveled widely and developed a keen interest in…
    • Contributor: Nicolas, Louis, Active
    • Date: 1664-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 197

  • Book/Printed Material
    Montreal Organ Book.
    Livre d'orgue de Montréal     The Livre d'orgue de Montréal (Montreal organ book) is the largest extant manuscript of French organ music of the period of Louis XIV (reigned 1643-1715). Labeled "Pièces d'orgue" (Organ pieces) on the…
    • Contributor: Lebègue, Nicolas
    • Date: 1661-01-01
    • Resource: PDF - 544

  • Map
    The Bay of All Saints.
    Sinus Omnium Sanctoru[m]     This map by Joan Blaeu (1596-1673), one of the most important Dutch cartographers, shows the Bay of All Saints off the coast of Brazil. The bay was named by Amerigo Vespucci, who…
    • Contributor: Blaeu, Joan
    • Date: 1664-01-01
    • Resource: Image
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    New Persia, Armenia, Anatolia and Arabia.
    Nova Persiæ, Armeniæ, Natoliæ, et Arabiæ     This highly decorative map of the Middle East is by the Dutch engraver, publisher, and map seller Frederick de Wit (1629 or 1630-1706). It was published in Amsterdam in about 1666. The…
    • Contributor: Wit, Frederik De - Sanson, Nicolas
    • Date: 1666-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    You mei
    友梅     The plum blossom and bamboo sometimes are paired as friends in Chinese culture. Both are symbols of purity and steadfastness. This pairing is reflected in this late 17th-early 18th century painting and…
    • Contributor: He, Shikun
    • Date: 1662
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Table Mountain.
    Zigt getekent uijt een schip voor de Kaap de Goede Hoop     This view of Table Mountain (Cape Town, South Africa) is from a set of 27 drawings on 15 sheets that was discovered in the National Library of South Africa in 1986. The…
    • Date: 1666-01-01
    • Resource: Image
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Cameo with Portrait of Louis XIV. This cameo, in a red-tinged onyx in three layers mounted on gold and colored enamel, represents King Louis XIV as a teenager. The triumphant crown on his head is a direct reference…
    • Date: 1661-01-01
    • Resource: Image